Year 6 Health – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Building Healthy and Active Communities

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 6 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Building Healthy and Active Communities”.

Students develop critical thinking skills to evaluate health information sources, learn about community health promotion actions, and build positive relationship skills to create healthy, connected communities.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Evaluating Online Health Information: Fact or Fiction?
2. Building Community Connections for Mental Wellbeing
3. Active Listening: The Foundation of Strong Relationships
4. Assessing Credibility of Health Websites and Apps
5. Community Safety Champions: Taking Action Together
6. Showing Respect and Empathy in Diverse Communities
7. Creating Social Networks for Community Health
8. Cooperative Problem-Solving for Community Challenges

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 3

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 3 runs from Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September — 10 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.